For
It drives innovation, science, and future progress.
Against
That money could solve social problems on Earth first.
Anonymous excerpts, translated where noted.
“The staggering amount of things that make our everyday life better that only exist because of NASA innovations are enough for me to justify it.”
“When the government funds space travel efforts, the technology that results is valuable, and because it’s taxpayer funded it’s available for all to use.”
“No because running off to space while there’s problems on earth is dumb.”
“Space exploration is an incredibly expensive and unnecessary way to ignore the many problems here on Earth.”